It is often argued that government laws and regulations have unintended consequences. Which of the following is an unintended consequence of the 2010 healthcare reform law?


Answer: Companies are reducing full-time employees to part-time employees

Economics

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The above figure shows the production possibility frontier for a country. Suppose the country is producing at point D. What is the opportunity cost of increasing the production of rice to 15 tons?

A) 9 thousand bottles of wine B) 12 tons of rice C) 6 thousand bottles of wine D) 15 thousand bottles of wine E) Nothing, it is a free lunch.

Economics

If Ben values good X more than good Y, and Catherine values good Y more than good X, a firm can increase its profits by

A) charging the same price for both goods. B) bundling the goods. C) selling the goods in a competitive market. D) charging one price per good.

Economics

Refer to the above figure. At a price of $2 per gallon, there is

A) a surplus of 20,000 gallons per month. B) a shortage of 40,000 gallons per month. C) a shortage of 80,000 gallons per month. D) a shortage of 60,000 gallons per month.

Economics

Assume that you have used the OLS estimator in the cointegrating regression and test the residual for a unit root using an ADF test. The resulting ADF test statistic has a

A) normal distribution in large samples. B) non-normal distribution which requires ADF critical values for inference. C) non-normal distribution which requires EG-ADF critical values for inference. D) normal distribution when HAC standard errors are used.

Economics